Devleena is a Senior Research Associate at the Research and Statistics Unit at ASER Centre. She holds a PhD from the University of Minnesota in Comparative and International Development and Education, with a background rooted in Sociology. She takes a keen interest in qualitative research methods at the intersection of gender and education. While field and local travel consume a large part of her time, Devleena is a homebody who loves to spend time surrounded by her family, dogs, books, music and kitchen experiments.